Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Alabama came from various goverment sources (GNIS), we also found mention of Alabama in various books and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Alabama. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Alabama data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Texas
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2001
(Available from Amazon.com)

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

Alabama is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

The GNIS database contains an entry for Alabama. See our Misc Page for Alabama for more information.